"Non-Metaphorical Decolonization" is the final song released for Mount Eerie's new album Night Palace, out this Friday.

The song has two acts, a sweeping fuzz-drenched intro that dissolves into a heart-wrenching folk lament, where Phil Elverum makes himself perfectly understood: 'This America/The old idea/ I want it to die'.

Watch the video below:

Elverum, about "Non-Metaphorical Decolonization":

“The final single to be released in advance of Night Palace is a break in the clouds, a clear voice bringing down an unambiguous hammer onto the ground of here and now. We live in the raw wound of a stolen continent empowered by multi-generational internalized racist destruction. Our self-serving dishonesty and subliminal ignorance will only keep us trapped as cycling perpetrators, so why not look right at the thing and give it a name? Liberate all, past and future! Start with giving up everything.”

Night Palace captures the same spirit as some of Elverum's earliest work, pushing his freewheeling home recording methods to adventurous directions over the album's 80-minute, 26 song span. His plainspoken lyricism rings as urgent as ever, reckoning with past, present and future with a disarming honesty.

Elverum shares some more thoughts on the album:

"For me, the couple years it took to make Night Palace was a slow drip, a patient drift on some deeper currents. Its many songs are about a moment of release, of clarity found in a non-intellectual lightning strike after long waves of turmoil and surrender, about being slapped in the face by dawn. That sounds vague. They are about responding verbally to wild animals, about saying fuck you to the neighbor’s private property signs, about decolonization, about decomposition, about truly immersing in an ambiguous ocean. Some Zen, some [Howard] Zinn."

Elverum has also scheduled a Bandcamp listening party this Wednesday, Oct. 30th at 12:30 PM ET for fans to hear the record in advance.

Order Night Palace here.

Furthermore, Mount Eerie has announced a tour across the US and Canada starting November 10. You can check out the full list of dates below:

11-10-24 — Eastsound, WA - Freezing Moon pt. 2 at Houlme, 5pm, free, outside, cold (with Ragana and Saltwater)
11-19-24 — Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw (with River L. Ramirez and Dear Nora)
11-21-24 — Los Angeles, CA - The Bellwether (with Agriculture and Deradoorian)

02-13-25 — Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theatre (with Ragana)
02-14-25 — Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre (with Ragana)
02-15-25 — Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater (with Ragana)
02-17-25 — San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall (with Ragana)
02-18-25 — Ojai, CA - Ojai Valley Women's Club (with Ragana)
02-19-25 — San Diego, CA - Music Box (with Ragana)
02-20-25 — Tucson, AZ - 191 Toole (with Ragana)
02-21-25 — Santa Fe, NM - Meow Wolf (with Ragana)
02-22-25 — Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre (with Ragana)
02-23-25 — Salt Lake City, UT - Soundwell (with Ragana)
02-24-25 — Boise, ID - Shrine Social Club (with Ragana)

04-13-25 — Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall (with Hana Stretton)
04-14-25 — Detroit, MI - El Club (with Hana Stretton)
04-15-25 — Toronto, ON - The Concert Hall (with Hana Stretton)
04-16-25 — Montreal, QC - Théâtre Fairmount (with Hana Stretton)
04-17-25 — Portland, ME - SPACE (with Hana Stretton)
04-18-25 — Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair (with Hana Stretton)
04-19-25 — Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer (with Hana Stretton)
04-20-25 — Washington, DC - The Atlantis (with Hana Stretton)

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